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Re: xdm
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:37:29 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: xdm
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Janos Sebestyen (ETH) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Janos and I am trying to use cygwin and Xfree under win2k, it is working fine, but I have a question!
> How can I use xdm and chooser, because it is allways said Only root wants to run xdm?
There is no such user root on winnt. But there is a workaround. Start
xdm with the option "-debug 1". This should allow you start it. But
I don't know if the authentication via xdm works on windows.
bye
ago
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- xdm
- From: Janos Sebestyen (ETH)